# MEKORAH and Text Restoration

> Articles related to MEKORAH, biblical text restoration, textual analysis, and the recovery of original meaning.

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## Publications

- [Demonologizing the New Testament – Jesus, Healing, and Cultural Distortions](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2223-demonologizing-the-new-testament-jesus-healing-and-cultural-distortions.md): After the Old Testament has been clarified as a non-demonological foundation of revelation—with Moses and the prophets promoting a theology of moral responsibility and the unique authority of YHWH—the New Testament seems to introduce demonology through a series of exorcisms and references to demons. Yet… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/demonologizing-the-new-testament-jesus-healing-and-cultural-distortions/
- [From Mikveh to “Mystery”: How John’s Baptism Was Changed](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2266-from-mikveh-to-mystery-how-johns-baptism-was-changed.md): There is a seemingly small, but decisive detail in the way Christianity talks about baptism. If you ask almost anyone today what “to baptize” means, the standard image is this: one person puts another person into water (or sprinkles them), in the name of a… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/from-mikveh-to-mystery-how-johns-baptism-was-changed/
- [The Texts About the Suffering of the Anointed One](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2257-the-texts-about-the-suffering-of-the-anointed-one.md): What Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Daniel 9, Zechariah 12, Exodus 12 Really Say? To support the idea that the death of Jesus was an atoning sacrifice required by God, many have appealed to various Old Testament texts. However, a careful analysis of these texts shows… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/the-texts-about-the-suffering-of-the-anointed-one/
- [When the King Became the Lamb – How the Text Was Altered to Create a Theology of Sacrifice](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2251-when-the-king-became-the-lamb-how-the-text-was-altered-to-create-a-theology-of-sacrifice.md): No event in the life of Jesus was more controversial than His entry into Jerusalem. In the Synoptics, it marks the beginning of the visible reign of the One anointed at the Jordan. But in the Gospel of John, the same entry becomes the prelude… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/when-the-king-became-the-lamb-how-the-text-was-altered-to-create-a-theology-of-sacrifice/
- [God’s Original Plan – The End of the Mythological Narrative](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2242-gods-original-plan-the-end-of-the-mythological-narrative.md): The entire theology of the religious world has been built on a story that does not belong to Moses: the myth of the fall from Eden. From this story came the idea of an “eternal plan of salvation” – a God who supposedly conceived from… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/gods-original-plan-the-end-of-the-mythological-narrative/
- [“Let Baal Defend Himself!” On courage, “holy” texts, and the wisdom of not fighting for gods](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2236-let-baal-defend-himself-on-courage-holy-texts-and-the-wisdom-of-not-fighting-for-gods.md): In a dark era of Israel’s history, the people lived under the oppression of the Midianites. These invaders not only plundered the harvests, they left behind a crushed people, haunted by fear and hunger. Daily life was overshadowed by a domination that was not only… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/let-baal-defend-himself-on-courage-holy-texts-and-the-wisdom-of-not-fighting-for-gods/
- [The Living Truth – A call to awakening beyond texts](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2229-the-living-truth-a-call-to-awakening-beyond-texts.md): I am a person who asks questions. Not because I want to overturn everything that is considered “sacred,” but because I want to understand what it truly means to seek the Truth. I grew up hearing “it is written” – in the Bible, in the… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/the-living-truth-a-call-to-awakening-beyond-texts/
- [Demonologizing the Old Testament: Rediscovering Ethical–Monotheistic Purity](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/2217-demonologizing-the-old-testament-rediscovering-ethical-monotheistic-purity.md): The Old Testament (OT) is often viewed through the lens of later Christian interpretations that project a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with Satan and demons as opponents of God. Yet the original Hebrew text tells a different story: the OT firmly rejects any… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/17/demonologizing-the-old-testament-rediscovering-ethical-monotheistic-purity/
- [Demonologizing Scripture – The Anatomy of a Deception](https://paulcsavdari.blog/ai/content/533-demonologizing-scripture-the-anatomy-of-a-deception.md): If there is one subject that reveals more clearly than any other the influence of Alexandria on the biblical text, it is demonology. Nothing shows more plainly how Hellenistic mythology slipped into the Jewish religion and then into Christianity than the sudden, almost violent appearance… Canonical: https://paulcsavdari.blog/2026/07/09/demonologizing-scripture-the-anatomy-of-a-deception/